How to Install and Uninstall virt-viewer Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: December 28,2024

You can also install and uninstall the virt-viewer on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "virt-viewer" package

Please follow the instructions below to install virt-viewer on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "virt-viewer" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall virt-viewer on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the virt-viewer package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: virt-viewer
Version: 11.0-2
Installed-Size: 1316
Maintainer: Debian Libvirt Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 (>= 2.25.2), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.48), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.4), libgtk-vnc-2.0-0 (>= 1.3.0), libgvnc-1.0-0 (>= 1.3.0), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libspice-client-glib-2.0-8 (>= 0.37), libspice-client-gtk-3.0-5 (>= 0.41-2~), libvirt-glib-1.0-0 (>= 0.1.8), libvirt0 (>= 1.2.8~rc2), libvte-2.91-0 (>= 0.46.0), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4)
Suggests: netcat
Description: Displaying the graphical console of a virtual machine
Description-md5: e069ea142b048ba559fa8fd6ed02013d
Homepage: http://virt-manager.org
Tag: admin::virtualization, implemented-in::python, interface::graphical,
interface::x11, role::program, suite::openstack, system::cloud,
system::virtual, uitoolkit::gtk, x11::application
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/v/virt-viewer/virt-viewer_11.0-2_amd64.deb
Size: 244712
MD5sum: 889d7d5938b9c362106cd75200dd27ac
SHA256: a3ec872b031f7467476626d0eb4b2157cce86021b250e06c57f426d6cd118b97